华兹华斯介绍

Wordsworth’s Writing Features
• Theme: broken with tradition, seeking his subjects in the small happenings of country life the talk of countrymen, children, and dongs and feelings of humble people, and emotion from his inner heart. • Language: simple, plain and vivid • He is good at writing about nature a源自文库d common people. •
Wordsworth’s Writing Features
• Profound in meaning. • Fresh in imagination
• He is the representative poet of Romanticism. • He emphasized the liberating aesthetic. • He not only started the modern poetry of the growing inner self, but also change the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language by advocating a reform to nature.
(1770--1850)
Wordsworth’s Life
• Wordsworth was born and grew up near Lake district in northwestern England. His parents died when he was very young.
• 1787—1791, he went to study at Cambridge. • 1791, he went to France to learn French in preparation for the career of a tutor. There he was greatly impressed by the revolution. He was also involved in a love affair with a French girl. • 1799—1850, he was politically very conservative and lived in the Lake district in the company of his sister and his friend Coleridge.
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, ， The difference to me!
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! --Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1.Theme of poetry : incidents and situations chosen from common life. 2. Language really used by common people. 3. Ordinary things are to be presented in an unusual way. 4. Trace the primary laws of human nature
Lake poets(湖畔派诗人)
Wordsworth is one of the Lake poets.
Three main figures: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
• His short poems fall into 2 categories. poems about nature and poems about human life. • poems about nature: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, My Heart leaps up, Tintern Abbey, To the Cuckoo, To a Butterfly poems about human life: The Solitary Reaper, The Old Cumberland Beggar, Michael
• Long poem: The Prelude(1850)—analyses the growth of poetic genius during childhood and youth, and recalls lessons owes to nature. • Lyrical Ballads(1798):published with Coleridge. • Preface to Lyrical Ballads: it can be read as a declaration of romanticism
My heart leaps up
• My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.